Its still a bit cramped. Could you please please please add a little bit of spacing between each line? An extra might do the trick. I'd edit it myself but I can't seem to get proper access to your site. Also, could you increase the font size?

Well, I'm not a member of the powerpoint generation, but if you replace the "***" by "+++", add a "stop" here and there, you'll get the right impression from which time this kind of formating is coming from.

But as long as my computer still has 329 teletypes in it's /dev/ directory, that's OK to me. And as we all know from sci-fi movies: The better the computer the slower the character output rate. So, could we please add some strange noise when each characters appears on the dot? ;)

"2 months ago I had fixed all the compilation problems in trunk for the linux version. It compiled and worked.Today I work on another branch (which compiles under linux and Windows, and does not use more qmake/make but scons http://www.scons.org ).

Given that I did not work on trunk during this time, the modifications of the other developers made that the code does not compile any more under linux (win32 is for the moment the principal target of wengo).

In little time (ie a few days) my changes will be merged back in trunk, you will thus have a softphone usable under linux. Then we will try to make trunk compiles all the time and everywhere.

While waiting, the compilation problems for Thread.cpp/h was fixed in trunk (or in v1.1 branch I don't remember). As regards audiodevice it is not corrected in the trunk."

So that mean we'll have to wait a couple of days before he merges everything into trunk.
He also told me that they're about to release a English website so that non-french people can buy credits too :)

mepis-lite low-resources version of their distribution
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Great but, KDE needs to be low-resource friendly and responsive.

I have observed that recompiling the kernel without the OSS sound support improves kernel responsiveness and also KDE applications loads a lot faster. It took 3-7 secs to load konqueror ($HOME), but after the kernel recompile, it takes around 1-3 seconds.

I wonder is the kernel only thing which improves KDE performance, especially the loading of applications which are in SECONDS not in milliseconds.

How can we make KDE applications LOAD in MILLI-SECONDS instead of several seconds?

Konqueror works better with "instance preloading", I believe preloading options for frequently used applications like:

well, very comparable software from the windows platform very often starts much faster on the same hardware, so there is obviously something wrong with kde/linux performance here.

some of this is due to GCC not being very fast, and it also has to do with certain optimizations simply not being present on linux systems (eg automatically alinging data on the harddisk to optimize startup times). also, windows gives a huge priority boost to apps starting and/or running in the foreground. this kills multitasking performance, but most windows users don't run many apps (probably since the windows interface does not make it easy, and because performance suffers...).

anyway, the comments are legitimately - linux/kde IS slower than windows 98. yes, it has more features, and is more stable. but things could be improved. GCC 4.1 will help, and QT4 too. I think KDE 4.x, combined with GCC 4.x and linux 2.6.12 and up will be a serious contender to windows 98 in terms of speed (and kick Lonhorn's ass in terms of features).

Win9x is not a fair comparison to linux, because it doesn't have memory/access/.. protection a multi user OS should have. If you want to compare linux with something from Redmond, take at least a NT-based OS.
About Qt4, we'll have to see of course. I remember the promises about Qt2 and Qt3, and they didn't really speed things up (probably it did, but new features ...).
However at home I've compiled Qt/KDE with gcc-4.0 and there is certainly a noticeable speed up. As we all know for some time, the symbol resolving of the dynamic loader is the main culprit slowing down KDE based apps. Use of prelink (pre resolve symbols) and gcc-4 (which significant reduces the exported symbols) helps a lot.
Even so, at my work I have a dual boot laptop with w2k and debian/testing (kde-3.3) and I find linux much better to work with. Yes simple apps, like kcalc, take longer to load. But after a days work, linux hasn't changed while with w2k even opening the 'Start' menu can take seconds.
Also linux GUI's benefits a lot from multi CPU systems, because of all inter-process communications it does (X/arts/kwin/kded/..). So the future, with multi-core, looks bright.
After sarge, when KDE-3.4 comes in testing and everything compiled with gcc4, things like startup will improve a lot. IIRC, this will happen by the end of this month (yeah :-))

what do you mean by :
# If you would like install KDE to the system (DO NOT INSTALL *over* a prior
# installation!), then you'll probably need to use sudo to install everything.
# make-install-prefix sudo
how can I make it install in /usr ? and will I need to recompile everything?

thx in advance

Pat

PS: i'm asking it here cause there doesn't seem to be any mailing list for it

I know it's bad to mix with another installation but I just wanted to know how I can install it to usr/local or /opt or /usr. I just remove the # from make-install-prefix? where do i need to specify the path?

I believe that you require the help of ./configure --prefix=/opt/kdesvn/
On my Suse box, I have kde 3.3, kde 3.4 and kde cvs (I've not gotten svn yet).
Each one is in it's own /opt/kde/ directory.
Then you can edit your .bashrc to specify where your KDEHOME is, along with the new libraries. Viola! Multiversion install on one pc.
Read here for other details:http://developer.kde.org/build/build2ver.html

Looking at these screenshots and thinking about it, what these other products (MS Outlook and Evolution) are and what Kontact is not is a cohesive application. Kontact is an example of the power of KDE, but also it shows where that power can be a weakness. Sure you can combine extremely powerful KDE apps under one roof, but ultimately they are still individual apps. There's no architectural integrity, and it shows. This is not an attempt to belittle Kontact (I personally don't use it), but just honesty. I use all the apps in Kontact, I just generally just don't want them all at once.

So just as a suggestion, ignore the urge to combine these apps into one frankeinstein app, focus on making it very easy to use these apps together. That is give them an invisible framework. For example the ability to right click on a email and turn it into a note would be cool, turn a journal entry into an email simply by right clicking on it. Think of MS Office, Word and Excel work very well together, but I don't need them both up to get that integration. That's what people want, small apps (tools) that I can master and combine with other tools to really get do amazing things.

What I meant by architectural integrity is being designed by one mind or a few similar thinking minds. (See "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks. Everyone should check it out, it's about managing large software projects. Although it feels dated at times, and isn't really about open source specifically I think it may be really worthy of your time.)

The problem I have with Kontact is that Korganizer is buggy. I've reported problems a long time ago yet see few commits in CVS/SVN. I've seen a lot of work on Kmail, but nothing to fix problems like lack of meeting notification for meetings stored on the Exchange server. Or frequent hangs of Korganizer wen changing the view or moving to a new day. I've reported these bugs many months ago, but sadly it looks like Korganizer is dead.

During the KDE PIM meeting last weekend, a lot of new development was planned for KOrganizer. A merge with Ko-PI will happen. Features which are considered as useful will be implemented in KOrganizer.

There is only one reason for the slow development of KOrganizer: lack of developers. Reinhold and me (the most active developers last year) are currently quite occupied with other things. So some extra helping hands are always welcome.

nice example. try to drop an email on the "todo" button, or on the Korganizer button. a task or an agenda item (multiple mails for an meeting) is created. and I guess dropping a journal entry on kmail will open a mail with it, dunno for sure - don't use journals.

so, what you say is already there. as another poster said, the interfaces might not look the same. but there is a integration. a lot :D